“I am fully prepared for our dystopian future!” Holliday Grainger on AI, firearms training and The Capture

YYou’ll never roll your suitcase through an airport the same way again. Hit techno-conspiracy drama The Capture makes its long-awaited comeback with a chilling, suspenseful opening sequence at Heathrow Terminal 5. When a hostile Russian agent lands in the UK, he hacks CCTV cameras and uses real-time image manipulation to evade border and passport controls. He’s traveling under a fake avatar – and let’s just say he’s not in London to visit M&M’s World or see the Paddington musical.

Written and created by former documentary filmmaker Ben Chanan, The Capture will strike fears for the future with its ripped-from-the-headlines mix of government AI use, state-sponsored cyberattacks, dark web data analysis and deepfake lookalikes. The show’s star, Holliday Grainger, compares it to “a long-form Black Mirror.”

“Each series explores technologies that seem just one step ahead of reality,” says the Manchester-born 37-year-old. “In the age of AI, it feels more…